An international organization of Muslim scholars headquartered in Qatar has condemned Saudi Arabia for its attempts to execute a senior Muslim preacher as a brutal crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against intellectuals and political dissidents widens in the conservative oil-rich kingdom.

More than ۱۰۰ rights groups called on Bahrain to "immediately release" prominent opposition figure and pro-democracy campaigner Nabeel Rajab after the United Nations condemned his detention as "arbitrary" and "discriminatory."

A high-ranking official at the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement deplored policies adopted by the US, Israeli and Saudi regimes against regional nations and said their joint plot will be foiled by the nations’ resistance.